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Celebs help Dogs in Danger

"Days of Our Lives" (not to be confused with "Dogs of Our Lives") actress Kristen Renton was there with two of her rescued boxers.

Jai Rodriguez, the former "Queer Eye" guy who now hosts Animal Planet's "Groomer Has It," was there with his five year-old Yorkie Nemo.

And “Access Hollywood" host Maria Menounos showed up as well at a Beverly Hills mansion Saturday for a benefit for Dogs in Danger, a group that promotes the adoption of shelter dogs.

Menounos (left) came toting her handicapped poodle, Noelle, in a pet-purse.

The aging dog’s back legs are crippled and the front ones are prone to sores, so she wears yellow protective pads made by Menounos’ mom, the Los Angeles Times animal blog Unleashed reports.

Also in the crowd were two of the contestants on the upcoming CBS show, “Greatest American Dog,” which pits 12 human-dog teams against each other in a $250,000 competition for the title of America’s greatest dog.

(Photo by Los Angeles Times)

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What a great story! Anyone helping dogs is ok in my book..

Posted by: Russ H | June 17, 2008 1:18 AM

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Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a beta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin. She, Leo and Pumpkin live in Baltimore.